“Why do they call it the Catholic Church? Because if they called it the Pedophiles Club, nobody would join.”

“This is my situation. I'm the kind of person who, for fun, writes articles called 'Aviation Club Soars into Orbit!' and an unhappy bully I've never heard of is sending out envoys.”

“Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.”

“It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.”

“why would you think such a dangerous endeavor would be fun?”

“Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.”

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”